HeyJaredmidnight crumbs
weekly essays exploring attention, culture, and choosing the life in front of you.
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31 slightly feral journal prompts for october (opens the original)
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january had plans, spring got busy, summer disappeared way too fast (classic summer behaviour). and then suddenly it’s october, there are three months left in the year, and a few things we’ve been calling temporary have begun looking rather settled in. which is exactly why i wanted october’s journaling practice to get a little feral.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4jVV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-
everyday skills that make you dangerously good with words (opens the original)
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why having bad taste is good for you (opens the original)
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for my 7th birthday gift i asked to decorate my bedroom like a field at sunset. we had recently moved from a very old farmhouse into a busy new-build estate, and my little brain had decided the solution to missing all that space was interior design. i requested yellow and orange walls for the sky to mimic a sunset, green carpet for the grass and, naturally, kept my purple groovy chick bed in the middle of it all. i thought it was gorgeous. the room had a concept, a colour story and absolutely no
how i’m making real life more interesting than my phone (opens the original)
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little things to do this fall for future nostalgia (opens the original)
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autumn has arrived, the gilmore girls have been summoned from storage, and some of us are behaving as though one slightly crisp morning constitutes a major spiritual event. personally, i support this. fall gives us an almost silly amount of things to look forward to; reading whilst snuggled in soft blankets, old films, the first foggy morning and proper jumper day, soup season, the leaves that sound better than they have any right to under your shoes. some people get seasonal affective disorder,
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